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How Stopping Fraud Early Can Increase Your Bottom Line

As the digital world continues to evolve, merchants are battling various types of fraud to protect both their customers and their bottom line. As fraudsters become more sophisticated and target businesses even earlier in the transaction process, merchants need to take a multi-layered approach to weed out bad actors and bad transactions alike. Ekata’s latest […]

1.4.2021

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Ekata Executive Series, Part III: Is Fintech Facing an Existential Threat or Momentum to Innovate?

Welcome to Ekata’s Executive Series. In this series, our CEO Rob Eleveld will be outlining the dynamics we see developing in the global identity verification (IDV) market and highlight Ekata’s response to continuous market demands. Today, we write in response specifically to a recent report on the existential threat facing the fintech market and respond […]

12.15.2020

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EKATA EXECUTIVE SERIES, PART II: TRUST STARTS AT THE SOURCE: Credit Risk Versus Fraud Risk

Welcome to Ekata’s Executive Series. In this series, our CEO, Rob Eleveld, will be outlining the dynamics we see developing in the global identity verification (IDV) market and highlight Ekata’s response to continuous market demands. Today, we are digging into the deterministic approach of credit risk and comparing it to the probabilistic approach of fraud […]

11.30.2020

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Ekata Executive Series, Part I: Supporting Cross-Border Identity Verification

Welcome to Ekata’s Executive Series. In this series, our CEO, Rob Eleveld, will be outlining the dynamics we see developing in the global identity verification (IDV) market and highlight Ekata’s response to continuous market demands. Today, our theme is “cross border” in the payments and card-not-present (CNP) ecosystem. Global Electronic Payments Global payments have been […]

11.20.2020

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Ekata Performance Amidst the Holiday Shopping Surge

It’s clear that holiday spending will be different in 2020 from previous years. Crowds might not be rushing to the front doors like normal, but the holiday rush is already among us. Due to COVID-19, many retailers have already started promoting holiday deals as early as October, and plan to stretch those out over a […]

11.12.2020

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Expanding Ekata’s Data Coverage in the EMEA and APAC Regions

As a global identity data provider, we at Ekata have a unique view and understanding of transactional identity query volumes on a global scale (see: DATA DEEP DIVE, PART II: HOW COVID-19 TRANSFORMED THE GLOBAL DIGITAL ECONOMY). In order to support our customers’ continued expansion of their global footprint, our data sourcing and services teams […]

11.5.2020

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CREATING CONFIDENCE IN DIGITAL BANKING

There is a quiet revolution going on in the banking world as a result of Covid-19. Consumers are shifting their banking habits from in-person interactions to online banking, and both the megabanks and digital banks are taking note. Starting in 2019, the trend to open checking accounts through online digital channels exceeded in-branch openings and […]

11.4.2020

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How Phone and Email Data is used in Transactions Around the World

Regardless of where you are in the world, Ekata can help verify your identity, determine whether or not a transaction is high risk or low risk, and give the data needed to appropriately respond to each transaction. This is the reason we are in such a unique position to speak from a global perspective on […]

10.30.2020

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Data Deep Dive, Part II: How COVID-19 Transformed the Global Digital Economy

When the COVID-19 outbreak was first declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in mid-March, nobody was in a position to predict just how great an impact this would have. After an initially fragmented response, a truly global response was underway. The announcement of the closure of non-essential retailers around the world […]

10.22.2020